Requirements¶

I have built and tested Perl 5.8.6 and 5.9.1 under BeOS R5 x86 net server. I can't say anything with regard to PPC. Since Perl 5.8.0 had been released for BeOS BONE, I suspect, there is a good chance, that it still compiles on a BONE system. The only change I've made, that affects BONE systems is the recognition of whether it is a BONE system or not in hints/beos.sh. Now network socket support should remain enabled on BONE systems. This might as well break the build, though.

As more recent versions of autoconf require flock() support, I wrote a flock() emulation (flock_server) and released it on BeBits:

        http://www.bebits.com/app/4030

If you want to build a Perl with flock() support, you have to install this package first.

Configure¶

With flock() support:

        CFLAGS=-I/path/to/flock/server/headers ./configure.gnu \
                --prefix=/boot/home/config

Replace "/path/to/flock/server/headers" with the path to the directory containing the "flock.h" header.

Without flock() support:

        ./configure.gnu --prefix=/boot/home/config

Build¶

With flock() support:

        make LDLOADLIBS="-lnet -lflock"

Without flock() support:

        make LDLOADLIBS="-lnet"

"-lnet" is needed on net server systems only and if the compiler doesn't add it automatically (Be's R5 gcc does, Oliver Tappe's gcc 2.95.3 does not).

Install¶

Install all perl files:

        make install

Create a symlink for libperl:

        cd ~/config/lib; ln -s perl5/5.8.6/BePC-beos/CORE/libperl.so .

Replace 5.8.6 with your respective version of Perl.